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[kor-artificer]

Darkest Dungeon Stress System in D&D (Download)

This week’s post is something I’ve been working on for a long time, and my first post which is a set of variant rules! Darkest Dungeon’s stress system is perhaps the core part of the game that sets it apart from other dungeon crawler games, and something I’ve really wanted to try implementing into D&D for quite a while. This system is designed to make D&D lea more into horror elements, so for those kind of games, such as those set in the Ravenloft campaign setting, this system presents a way to mechanically track your characters’ fear as they fight whatever horrors the DM has planned.

One of the major choices i made for designing this was having stress go up, instead of down like hit points, so that it’d mirror Darkest Dungeon more closely, and allow stress to build to double it’s value, which is more difficult to explain and track like negative hit points.

The additional rules I added outside of Darkest Dungeon’s original stress system, such as the Soothing Presence feat and the modifications to class abilities were based on the flavour of those abilities, or in comparison to similar abilities of the heroes in Darkest Dungeon, such as the stress gained from a druid’s transformation in reference to the Abomination hero from Darkest Dungeon.

You can find all of my Darkest Dungeon D&D homebrew in my Darkest Dungeon tag here! Next week, expect some homebrew that’s a little more light-hearted, for the release of Magic the Gathering: Unstable!

[demifiendrsa]

Fallout 76 – Official Teaser Trailer

[butchdarry-deactivated20180612]

the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance

[butchdarry-deactivated20180612]

to clarify … so many strong women in my life rely on men. that dependence is dangerous. ladies here are some good ref resources I’ve found helpful on my journey towards self reliance

automobile

changing coolant

changing oil

changing tire

jumping a car

plumbing

toilet running

basement flooding

replace a faucet

clogged drain

electrical

replacing light switches

blew a fuse

installing overhead light

earth vs. neutral vs. live wires

home

patching drywall

finding studs

this list is in no way comprehensive feel free to add on

[nerdgul]

a lot of ‘man things’ are a lot easier than you think they are. especially considering the fact that most of these things when buying the parts come with directions on the packaging that men usually don’t even look at (and often end up doing it wrong because they were taught by fathers who also did not look at the packaging). 

like i recently had to change my car battery and freaked out cause i thought id electrocute myself but turns out new batteries come with directions and its the easiest shit in the world so long as you can lift the damn thing. 

so yeah, ladies dont ever feel like a man is a necessity for life, you can do this shit on your own its easier than you think!  

[beauyahsa]

Mccree’s amazing italian accent

[midnightmoonlightbossfight]

Moira , looking at her clipboard: It says here that diarrhea is hereditary.

*Looks up from clipboard*

Moira: It runs in your jeans.

submitted by agentsmithdoingthemacarena

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[ramblingandpie]

I made bread this weekend for the first time in a looooong time. I used the Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free mix and it was TASTY. And very easy.

I totally plan on making more bread because I miss bread and most commercial GF breads are not super tasty.

[helpfulharrie]

graphicsgale is now completely free! https://graphicsgale.com/us/

it’s a rly good pixel art program, esp for animating sprites!

[otakunews01]

DARK SOULS REMASTERED Video Announcement | Nintendo Switch 

[dragongirltitties]

>2018 starts with a full moon

>2018 is year of the dog

i’m onto you werewolves

[long-tan-and-waluigi]

Wah in tarnation

[midnightmoonlightbossfight]

Not mine

[bahrains]

tell a story

once there was a man who drove the train for a living. he loved it; it was something he’d wanted to do since he was a little boy. his favourite part was making the train go as fast as possible.

one day, however, because he was going so fast, the train got into an accident. now the man made it out safely but unfortunately, one passenger died. so, the man was put on trial, found guilty, and sentenced to execution. 

the day came when the man was meant to be executed and he requests a banana for his last meal. he ate his banana, sat in the chair, and the executioner flipped the switch. sparks flew, but the man emerged alive. 

now, around this time there was a law that stated if a person were to survive an execution, it was a sign of divine intervention and the prisoner was to be let go. so, the man was released. 

he got his job back as a train driver, and having learned nothing from his previous mistakes, continued on driving the train recklessly. of course, the train soon got into another accident. 

now again, the man was put on trial, found guilty and sentenced to death. and, for his last meal, he requested two bananas. so, he ate his bananas, was strapped into the chair, and the executioner flipped the switch. once again, the man was totally fine, and released. 

now, would you believe that he got his old job back again? our reckless train driver seems to have learned nothing, because he continued to drive the train overly fast and recklessly. of course, he got into an accident for a third time. 

once again the man was put on trial, found guilty, and sentenced to death. 

the day came and he requested his last meal - three bananas. at this point the executioner said, “no, i’m sick of you coming in here, eating your banana and walking out unscathed. let’s just do this.”

 so, without eating his bananas, the man was strapped to the electric chair, the executioner flipped the switch and - the man was completely unharmed. the executioner was dumbfounded. 

“oh, the bananas have nothing to do with it,” the man explained, “i’m just a bad conductor.”

[abhorrentafro]

Spoil the ending of your favorite game without any context

[grawly]

[fictionaddictionbea-deactivated]

The most advanced Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (D&D 5e) character builder/generator in the multiverse.

Have all you Dungeon and Dragon players heard of Orc Pub? It allows you to easily and freely create a DND character. 

It informs you about each race, here you can see I’m remaking my Aasimar from a new game. 

It can calculate all of your abilities for you if that’s something you have trouble with. I certainly have a hard time. Or if you’re super awesome and can do it by yourself there is a manual way to do it!

Basically it just helps you go step by step figure out what feats you might want,  what alignment you might want, what comes items (weapons, armor, and gold etc) come with your character’s background and class. 

Did I mention its FREE?

Right now there is a kickstarter to help make a mobile app, but right now I can easily transfer this info onto my character sheet!

[vervxin]

MUSIC ASKS

1: A song you like with a color in the title 2: A song you like with a number in the title 3: A song that reminds you of summertime 4: A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about 5: A song that needs to be played LOUD 6: A song that makes you want to dance 7: A song to drive to 8: A song about drugs or alcohol 9: A song that makes you happy 10: A song that makes you sad 11: A song that you never get tired of 12: A song from your preteen years 13: One of your favorite 80’s songs 14: A song that you would love played at your wedding 15: A song that is a cover by another artist 16: One of your favorite classical songs 17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke 18: A song from the year that you were born 19: A song that makes you think about life 20: A song that has many meanings to you 21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title 22: A song that moves you forward 23: A song that you think everybody should listen to 24: A song by a band you wish were still together 25: A song by an artist no longer living 26: A song that makes you want to fall in love 27: A song that breaks your heart 28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love 29: A song that you remember from your childhood 30: A song that reminds you of yourself

Send me any numbers and I will answer them:))

[bironism]

this quiz tells you what your homeric epithet would be and well, isn’t this the question that keeps us all up at night? feel free to reblog and put your epithet in the tags, mine is bright-eyed

[inkchantments-deactivated201807]

#earth-moving

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt

[archouai]

Once I read a fic where they were like “he tasted like” and I’m expecting the typical formula (1 cooking ingredient + 1 natural phenomenon + “something uniquely [character name]”) but instead they said “he tasted like mouth” and it was one of the greatest fic moments of my life

[nicetobealive-deactivated201710]

click and drag to find out what your shitty fanfiction kiss tastes like